Disaster Recovery on Amazon Web Services

After a seven-year career at Cisco, I am thrilled to be working with 2nd Watch to help make cloud work for our customers. Disaster recovery is a great use case for companies looking for a quick cloud win. Traditional on-premise backup and disaster recovery technologies are complex and can require major capital investments. I have seen many emails from IT management to senior management explaining the risk to their business if they do not spend money on backup/DR. The associated costs with on-premise solutions for DR are often put off to next year’s budget and seem to always get cut midway throughout the year. When the business does invest in backup/DR, there are countless corners cut in order to maximize the reliability and performance with a limited budget.

The public cloud is a great resource for addressing the requirements of backup and disaster recovery. Organizations can avoid the sunk costs of data center infrastructure (power, cooling, flooring, etc.) while having all of the performance and resources available for their growing needs. Atlanta based What’s Up Interactive saved over $1 million with their AWS DR solution (case study here).

I will highlight a few of the top benefits any company can expect when leveraging AWS for their disaster recovery project.

1.Eliminate costly tape backups that require transporting, storing, and retrieving the tape media. This is replaced by fast disk-based storage that provides the performance needed to run your mission-critical applications.

2.AWS provides an elastic solution that can scale to the growth of data or application requirements without the costly capital expenses of traditional technology vendors. Companies can also expire and delete archived data according to organizational policy. This allows companies to pay for only what they use.

3. AWS provides a secure platform that helps companies meet compliance requirements due to easy access to data for deadlines that is secure and durable.

Every day we help new customers leverage the cloud to support their business. Our team of Solutions Architects and Cloud Engineers can assist you in creating a plan to reduce risk in your current backup/DR solution. Let us know how we can help you get started in your journey to the cloud.